Oxford’s ivory tower may not often feel the tremors of a thousand students pushing through police lines to protest Vince Cable‘s (non) appearance at the Exam Schools in collusion with the marketisation of higher education in Britain. However, some students at Wadham College have, this past week, renewed a tradition (alive since 2008) of bringing [...]
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Oxford Radical Forum 2011 – feminism, sex workers’ rights, open source, marxist ecology, Walter Benjamin, and the Arab revolutions …
Posted in campaigning, climate justice, education cuts, feminism, festivals, immigration/no-borders on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Wouldn’t you say, folks, that The Coming Insurrection appears to be coming, coming – come? Updated notes on ‘women and the cuts’, the student uprisings, and the context of ‘Cablegate’
Posted in campaigning, education cuts, protest on December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It is a season to be proud on the Left. The autonomous movement is er snowballing out on the whitened streets. Splatterings of mustard adorn riot cops’ helmets; black bruises adorn the bodies of the young; graffiti-ed blazons of ‘R E V O L U T I ON’ adorn the stone facades of Westminster, Leeds, [...]
The Oxford Education Campaign occupies the Rad Cam. The University closes the Bodleian as a whole; the occupiers are under pressure. A call to rally around free education in the square.
Posted in education cuts, protest, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The occupiers of the “#RadicalCamera” (oh how this makes me happy) are using free education as a vehicle for their ideological battle against the neoliberal marketisation of higher education. Their Twitter account is @occupiedoxford, their website is http://occupiedoxford.org, and their Facebook profile is Rad Cam. They are maintaining the library, they are educating each other [...]
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